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PepsiCo introduced the first two-liter sized soft drink bottle in 1970. [1] Motivated by market research conducted by new marketing vice president John Sculley (who would later be known for heading Apple Inc. from 1983 to 1993), [2] the bottle and the method of its production were designed by a team led by Nathaniel Wyeth of DuPont, who received the patent in 1973. [3]
In US customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value ...
Lit. "jug". Also called pikkukappa (exactly 2.5 L). kappa: 4 ~5.4961 L 9.67 pt (4.84 qt) Still in use (as exactly 5 liters) as kappa or isokappa at market places to measure potatoes. nelikko: 32 ~43.986 L 38.72 qt (9.68 gal.) Used for dry measure. panni: 64 ~87.96 L 19.36 gal. Used for dry measure. tynnyri: 128 ~175 L 38.49 gal. Barrel for dry ...
A coomb is a measure of volume.Its exact original details are not known. In 13th century England it was defined as 4 bushels (~140 L). It was in use in Norfolk as a dry measure: "Ben sold my Wheat to the Marlingford Miller this Morning for 19 shillings per Coomb" - Parson Woodforde's Diary, 20 May 1786.
These were used to measure rice and salt. 1 gantang [9.2 L, 2.02 Imp. gal.]: Derived from a Malaysian dry measure used on Java, Borneo, and the Moluccas and Celebes Islands. [6] [7] 1 balli = 5 gantang [46 L, 11 Imp. gal.]: Derived from an Indonesian dry measure used on Sumatra. [8]
The table of imperial avoirdupois mass is the same as the United States table up to one pound, but above that point, the tables differ. The imperial system has a hundredweight, defined as eight stone of 14 lb each, or 112 lb ( 50.802 345 44 kg ), whereas a US hundredweight is 100 lb ( 45.359 237 kg ).
A firkin was an American unit of dry measure. 1 firkin = 9 US gallons = 34 litres [ 3 ] American naturalist John Burroughs (1837–1921) in his boyhood memoir described a firkin as weighing 100 pounds when loaded with salted butter.
kg⋅m 2 ⋅s −1: L 2 M T −1: Strain: ε: Extension per unit length unitless 1: Stress: σ: Force per unit oriented surface area Pa L −1 M T −2: order 2 tensor Surface tension: γ: Energy change per unit change in surface area N/m or J/m 2: M T −2: Thermal conductance κ (or) λ: Measure for the ease with which an object conducts heat ...